ran ourselves to death yesterday.....since we only had the 2 day salzburg card..we wanted to get our moneys worth.....first up: the catacombs.....a nice old graveyard still in use..along the side of the fortress hill ( the big hill mountain? in the center of the city with the fortress on top) they carved catacombs up into the rock.....empty now..and quite small...but it was nice..the walk up all the stairs thou..killer.....grizz was feeling really hungover from the beerhouse the previous night so from there we walked a bit around the city ther...giant church...nice fountains with giant statues......anyway..passed em upto do the river boat tour....really nice...good seats....40 minutes....and at the end..the boat did this little automatic....dancing around deal...really fast spins in the water...set to waltz music..awesome after that...we ran all the way across the city to do ... read more

salzberg: took a train late after standing at the bus stop at the bottom of the konopiste castle....beautiful..and free wifi from the pensione across the street..but a 2 hour wait...then a long train..which had problems adn they had to bus us to another stop...then back ona train...which when that arrived...we missed our connection..another wasnt for 3 hours.....but it was a nice train and direct to salzberg.......electrical plug ins and our own cabin...comfy..good cuz our feet..oh man what a smell.....so glad we had our own cabin...arrived in salzberg at 1 am......got online for free at a mcdonalds right by train station..found the yoho international youth hostle...just a 10 minute walk away....laundry..accepted cards....shower...good breakfast considering its kinda skimpy...but good.....laundry almost dry....and will be packed..trying a new configuration with the backpacks..as on... read more

more pics? ok heres some of the graveyard by the camping place.... read more

one more day in prague..gotta see strahov abby with its odd natural collections and over 12,000 medieval books on display ..and the jewish quarter....then off to kutna hora... read more

well day 1 basically in being able to actually see things and do stuff. nice firm mattresses at eh hostle..we slept like logs....slept from 8pm to 9 am here....finally woak up grizz and got some breakfast..nice selsction..heavy on carbs of course...great cheese tho and oj and nutella to be had....the strawberry dannon yogurt was awesome tasting....i think everything must taste better here cuz i drank a whole mug of dark beer adn loved it at u flecku bar! so its just america where stuff tastes bleh...as i expected. anyway got going about 10am.......walked all over gods green earth i swear! but feel much better and feet dont hurt now only 20 minutes back in our beds as i write this... trams are fun in otehr languages......luckily we ask people and point to where we need to ... read more